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THE THREE HIGHWAYMEN.

Once upon a time all honest
yeomen travelling through a GER
tain land invariably fell among
thieves-three of them-who rob-
bed the travellers of all they pos
sessed. One of these thieves own
ed the land through which the
road passed; another the stage
coaches on which they travelled;
and the last the horses by which
the coach was moved.
By and by appeared prophet
saying to the murmuring people,
why be longer robbed2 know ye
are peaceful and also am a Chris
tian and will not advise forcible
resistance. But let us all join to-
gether and buy the land of the
first robber. We shall be able to
progress no longer in poverty"
And SO it came to pass. The
plundered people bought the land
and retired Robber Landlord from
business.
But not a month had passed
when another citizen passing
through the land was again rob-
bed of every cent he had-not by
the three but by the two bandits,
one of whom held the pistol of
Profit to his head while the other
with.the dagger of Interest ripped
open his pockets.
Then and only then did the
people wake up and clearly per-
ceive that under a competitive
system of wage slavery there pre-
walls an iron law limiting the
amount of wages left after passing
through it, to mere living; and
that the cutting off of one of the
robbers without stopping the rob-
berry itself merely increases the
spoil of the two remaining BAN
dts witout in one single iota
helping the wayfarer.
Let the Syracuse convention
put this in their pipe and smoke
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tation must also be freed i. e.
controlled by the state for the free
use of all. "No necessity of this
at ALL" says Mr.. George, "all you
need is to free land"
There is something Mr.. George
has forgotten: Must not LABOR
be free as we'll as the land? Ger
tainly, yes" he must reply.
But can a WHOLE be free when
any of its parts are in chains? Is
the handcuffed negro free man7
Certainly not. &,
Then the Socialists are right
and you are convicted out of your
own mouth. You yourself say
there must be two free factors.
Your scheme makes land only
free. Machinery is but LABOR du-
plicated a thousand times; trans
portation the same; exchange the
veritable thing-all, all LABOR
nothing more, nothing less.
Tell us then how Labor can be
free when the capitalistic class
hold its various arms-transporta-
ton, machinery and exchange
bound fast in the manacles of mo-
nopoly?
No; the Socialists are right.
The cause of poverty is robbery;
the method, that of the competi-
tive wage system; the means,
rent, interest and profit; the rem
edy, cooperative ownership, con-
troll and operation by the whole
people of the natural resources,
means of production, transporta-
tion and exchange upon basis of
cost being the limit of price.
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VALUE.

Now that the question of So
cialism appears about to be dis
cussed upon its merits it will be
we'll to for all to recall this para
graph from Gronlund's Cooper
ative Commonwealth:
Nov, please mark that moth
ing can SO effectually kill our
cause as the successful impeach-
ment of the answer that we shall
give to the question: WHAT is
vALUE?'"
Here, then, is nut for all the
political economists to try their
hands at; the lawyers and logi-
clans are also welcome to try and
crack it.
And here is a definition for
them to begin on:
The value" of goods with us
means their value in exchange.
and should be their RELATIVE
EQUIVALENCE, not as now the
price they will fetch in the mar
ket. The exchange value of wares
depends upon the quantities Of
average human labor necessarily
required to produce them and
bring them to market. In other
words; value is the quantity of
human labor, measured by time,
which on an average is requisite,
by the implements generally used,
to produce given commodity.
B. G. H.
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CONSUMPTION CURED.

An old physician, retired from practice,
having had placed in his hands by an East
India missionary the formula Of simple
vegetable remedy for the speedy and perma-
nent cure Of Consumption, Bronchitis. Ca.
tarrh, Asthma and all throat and Lung Affec-
tions, also positive and radical cure for
Nervous Debility and all Nervous Complaints,
after having tested its wonderful curative
powers In thousands Of cases, has felt II his
duty TO make 1t known to his suffering fel.
lows Actuated by this motive and a desire
TO relieve human suffering, will send free
Of charge, TO all who desire II, this recipe, in
tions for preparing and using. Sent BY mai
by addressing with stamp, naming this paper
". A: NoYEs, l4s Powers Block. Rochester
New York. COW
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LOCAL LABOR ORGANIZATIONS.
KNIGHTS OF LABOR.
Notice. under this head are IS psr year In advance

IA0 a A-Montgomery Benevolent Assembly
J4Z4No l4A, meets every Friday evening
al Neers hall, third door, No. 24I Fifteenth
come extended TO visiting members.
IAc c0-Louisville Assembly, No. 1853,
ITO Omeets every Thursday evening at
7:S0 O'Clock. at School Hall.
0007-Uni0n (benevOlent) Assembly, No.
z0z 2Z, meets every Monday evening
ct 7:S0 O'Clock. in Neefs hall, al Fifteenth
brothers % and sH sisters are ar cordiaIis invited.
7-Internationa Assembly, No. 32l7,
OK 4 meets every Wednesday evening at
1880 O'Clock. in Odd Fellowf hall. 889 Santa Fe
avenue, Denver, Colorado. Visiting brOthers
cordially welcome.
o0ao-Litchman Assembly, No. 1888,
O'Clock, IN X. OF L. hall, Rock Springs,
are cordial v invited to visit.
q AZ 0-J. r. Buchanan Assembly, No. 3453,
4Q0meets every Sunday evening at E9e,
bers of other assemblies ALWAYS welcome.
0Aco-Progress Assembly, No. S18s, meets
OtO 0every Saturday evening, at 1880
o'clock. In Odd Fellows hall. Carbon, Wyom.
inG. rst,if Mn
q n n0-Steadfast Assembly, No. 1892, meets
NI Wednessd1ay ~ s.1 .eNnsr evening e. H1
and Twenty-seventb streets, Denver. Mem
bers of the order invited to visit -
oEno-Sumner Assembly, No. 3t0S meets
COy0on the first and third Wednesday
evening Of each month, at Reno Hall, Twen-
ty.seventh and Holladay SITS.
aEQQ-Ogden Assembly, No. 1888, meets
OVOCevery Thursday evening at o'clock
In knights Of PythiaS hall, Main street. be.
tween Fourth and Fifth, Ogden, Utah. Visit
ing brothers always welcome.
Qcc7Joe Murray Assembly. No. 3667,
Spring Canon school house At 7:se ,. m.
Visiting brothers and sisters are cordially
invited to attend. P. O. address. Stout. Colo.
07lA-Local Assembly No. S7l4, meets at
81 rs o'clock every Tuesday evening, in
Neefs hall, 24l Fifteenth street, Denver.
Members Of the order are invited TO attend.
0o07-Highland Assembly, No. 1897.
O0S | meets every Saturday evening at
O'Clock, in Neefs Hall, Al Fifteenth St.,
Denver. Visiting brothers and sisters always
welcome
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THE TWO FACTORS.

1t is true as Mr.. George says
that their are primarily but two
essential elements of wealth, i. e.
goods-land and labor. He says
make LAND free and that is all the
reform needed. And thereupon
he proceeds to criticise the Social
ist formula which claims that ex-
change, machinery and transpor-
The Labor enquirer., 1887-08-13

THIS is the first summer since
the Denver Social League was es-
tablished that it has held its ses-
sion regularly during the hot
season. Soreheads and scoffers
predicted failure. But its meet
ings are larger and more enthusi-
astic than ever before. Last Sum
day night was great success and
tomorrow night will witness new
attractions.
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of all negroes brought here were
brought by New England rum.
The liquor sellers are opposed to
female suffrage because they know
the women of the country would
vote them out of existence in a
single election. The speaker then
read portion of the Prohibition
platform to show that his party
did not deal with the liquor ques-
ton alone.
There were loud calls for MIR.
Hipp who arose in defense of the
cause of Prohibition and made an
eloquent and stirring speech. He
said that all the progress and ad-
vancement during the past 5000
years was effected without the
United Labor. Party. can't re-
member the time when | did not
have to work hard for a living.
The first thing Noah did after he
left the ark was to get drunk.
Hard work didn't do it; oppres-
sion did not do it. You believe in
giving man his personal liberty,
letting him do as he pleases.
What right have you to say that
Jay Gould has no right to his mil
lions? . q
The main cause of misery, pow
erty and crime is original sin; the
liquor traffic comes next. With
temperance and saving the poor
man can get rich. All places are
open to him. There was no COM
petition or wage-slavery in Adams
time and yet Cain killed his own
brother. The workingman has
only to stop drinking and use his
drink-money to buy out the mon
opolies of the land. Prohibition
is the armor which Labor must
put on. Rarely has a more elo-
duent talk than that OF Mr.. Hipp
been heard in Denver. Loud ap-
plause saluted his closing remarks
Immediately followed by loud
calls, long repeated, for Mr.. Has
kell.
Mr.. Haskell replied to Mr..
Hipp at length and upon scientific
bases, dealing with the whole
question at issue, urging Mr.. Hipp
and the Prohibition Party to aban-
don their immaterial and crude
ideas and rally to uproot poverty
forever, to strike at a cause not an
effect, to argue upon grounds of
science not superstition, to study
the real causes of misery and to
abandon the mere "say-so's" of
sentimental doctrinaires.
Long continued applause and a
song ended the meeting, which
resulted beyond doubt in decis-
i've victory for the Labor side of
the question.
The lawyers will have their in
nings next Thursday night and the
hall will be jammed to the doors
beyond doubt.
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! AMERICAN CHARACTER.

Il am more astonished at Mr..
Georges statement that the Amer
ican people are people welded
to individualism, than at any other
statement or assumption in his re-
markable article in last week S
Standard. 1t is probably the
more astonishing because the more
unexpected. Whatever else was
to be prognosticated it was to be
generally believed that in shallow
things Mr.. George would be deep.
If there is anything whatever
self-evident to the biologist sur
veying American character, it is
the almost total lack of "individ-
ualism" as characteristic. This
needs only a few stale illustra-
tions to make it stand out boldly
to even the most ordinary and
unscientifc mind.
Pray, is it "individualistic" to
stand idly by, absorbed in blind
worship of the claws" ii. e. the
courts and legislatures) knowing
them to be procured by fraud, to
meekly accept such decisions as
the final arbitrament, instead of
revolving as the English have
done a hundred times2 Is it Gin
dividualistic" to go to England or
France for our fashions in clothes,
in books. in art, in architecture,
even in ideas1 Is it individual
istie" for Stanford or Willard to
run crying to the state for rail-
road subsidies and assistance?
Pray, are our national banks Gin
dividualistic;;" or our syndicates,
our corporations, our cattle trusts3
On the contrary,-the Ameri-
can people are essentially and
wholly, from millionaire to pau
per, from political economist to
Powderly,- nation peculiarly of
a "Philistine" type, as Max Nor
dau would say,-they do not know
how to walk alone,-they can on
ly exist and grow under the fos-
tering system of COLLECTIVELY. Th.
hybrid-collectivity under which
they are now progressing needs
correcting only in this,-that the
bigger boys should be taught with
a switch not to take all of the din
ner and leave the weaker children
nothing.
"Individuals," forsooth; cattle,
more like.
When a nation becomes as a
whole real lovers of individuality
it is because the will and the
judgment and the memory are de-
veloped and the lower centres of
mentality cease to rule. Then
men are scientists and sages, and
the stake blazes no more, and the
FOOLS cap-and-bells is silent. Then
the state crumbles earthward; and
her Children, now FREE MEN AND
WOMEN, heap up her grave with
garlands and sing as her requium
the thank-song of the Child to the
Mother.
The Labor enquirer., 1887-08-13
AMERICAN sEAMEN, TAKE NOTICE

The Coast Seamens Union is the Back
bone OF the Pacific Coast Labor Move
ment. Capital has subscribed large sums
tc break it up and threatens to import
men from the East and abroad. There
are on the Pacific Coast now three men
for every place. Therefore keep away
from San Francisco.
The COAST SEAMEN's UNION.
HEADQUARTERS. 5131a East Street, San
Francisco. California.
January l, 1887.
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PARTICULAR attention is called
to the various essays upon value
given in this issue. All of it is
Denver thought-the product of a
class in political economy which
has been holding regular sessions
lately. Apropos,-a Denver boo
dler told country visitor that it
was "a dynamite class and hor-
rihed hayseed believed it! You
read the essays and see if it isn't.
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District Assembly No. 90.

District Assembly No. SO meets on the 4th
Sundays Of January, April, July and October
OF each year. This District has Jurisdiction
over the entire State Of Colorado excepting
the Union Pacific r. R. employes).
All locals at present attached to the Gen.
eral Assembly in this State are earnestly
requested to take steps at once toward attach.
ing to D. A. 80.
All locals In the State should be working
under one State head to do effective work.
For further particulars Communicate with
c. W. EYE, d. r. S. Of d. A, 50.
3l4S Larimer st., Denver, Colo.
2in 30 lytf32l ~
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light the eye of all its friends, we
know. 1t was cast especially for
the paper and is just suited to it,
"a plain open face and of the
newest old-style make. Old in
honesty, new in light; subscrip-
ton SLIGO per year payable in ad-
vance, the boycotts of bigots to
the contrary Notwithstanding.
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We viii renew the times Of truth and JUS
80" tice,
Condensing In fair, free commonwealth
Not rash equality, but equal rights."

After you get angry and make up your
mind 70 stop your paper, just poke your
finger In water and pull II out and look for
the hole. Then you know how sadly yoh are
missed. A man who thinks paper cannot
survive without his support ought TO go on
will md out that half his friends didnt
know he was gone, the other half didn care
. cent, and the world at large didn't keep any
account OF his movements. You Will nnd
things you cannot endorse In every paper.
Even the Bible Is rather plain and hits some
hard licks. II you were TO get mad and burn
your Bible, the hundreds Of presses would
still 20 on printing them and II You were 70
stop your paper. and call the editor all sorts
llshed, and what II more you would slip
around and borrow o copy Of II every week
from your neighbor. You would do much bet
ter 70 keep your vest pulled down and your
subscription paid up q year In advance.
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THE editor of the ENQUIRER
lectured at Louisville last Sunday
evening to a crowded and enthu-
siastic house. The entire town
turned out, Successful appear
ances the previous Tuesday and
Wednesday at Greeley and Fort
Collins. A necessary but unex-
pected return to Denver necessi-
tated the postponement of the
lectures advertised for Loveland,
Longmont and Boulder.
The Labor enquirer., 1887-08-13

THE despised Socialists among
the Chicago K. of L. have got
there. In D. A. % last Wednes-
day they elected full Socialist
delegation headed by Robert Mel
son, to go to Minneapolis in Octo-
hor
The Labor enquirer., 1887-08-13

A LEADvILLE Assembly sends
me resolution calling Joe Buch-
anan an Anarchist" and saying
that he shall not take his seat at
Minneapolis. ! do not desire to
suppress even the most insignih-
cant things -
The Labor enquirer., 1887-08-13

SINCE SO many of the recon-
mended" papers have failed the
Journal Of United Labor now
omits the publication of the list.
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SPECIAL NOTICE.

Those OF our subscribers who receive their
papers with their address printed on the mar
gin will please notice the date after the name
as it denotes the date TO which they have
means that Mr.. Smith has paid to September
l, 1887, and on that date his subscription be-
comes again due. II not renewed promptly
the paper will be stopped without further
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your receipt please notify us at once and
have the error corrected. II you fail TO re-
ceive your paper mail complaints at once TO
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A NUMBER of sample copies of
the ENQUIRER will be sent to the
Syracuse convention, and SUBJ
scriptions are invited.
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THE SOCIAL LEAGUE
AT NEFF'S HALL
Meets Everysunday Night.
FEDERATED TRADES.

Gil Of the Federated Trades and Labor Organ.
izations OF the Pacific coast, is at Huddy's
hall, 90911 Market, San Francisco, California.
W. A. BUSHNELL, President.
E. D. MCKINLEY, Cor. Sec,
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BRICKLAYERs.

Brtcklayers' International Union. No. /, OF
Colorado, meets the second and fourth Mon.
day evenings In each month, at No 1919 Law
renee street, Denver. Colorado.
JAMES COOK, MARK SULLIVAN
Cor. Secretary President,
35aS Blake st. Nl2l7 34th st.
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IRON HOLDERS.

lion Molders' Union. meets every second
and fourth Tuesday of each month at Pacific
Hall Twenty-seventh and Holiday, at 7:30 o.
m. ]. j. SMITH, Cor Sec.,
1901 Holiday street.
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TAILOKs.

meets In Police Court room, City Hall, at 1880
o'clock p. M, on the first Monday of each
month. ]. B. LENNON, President.
T. HAMLIN, Secretary.
Room IS Skinnes Block.
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For President in 1883,
HENRY GEORGE,
or the United states.

THERE is no patent pull-back to
the new dress of the ENQUIRER.
il. S.
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'DEscHELEDDIN RUM, Hindoo,
/ believe, who wrote the only ap-
proachable description of God, la
beled "Brahm," began the poem
thus. H
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Official Organ of D. A. SO, Knights OF
Labor.
The LABOR EseuIRxR is also the Official
Organ Ofhe Unisn Labor Party Of Colora-
do. III III a.
n n the only paper ,uhich contains t.e
official proceedings Of the Trades As*Wo!y
OF Denver, and Is the motifh-piece Of nu ae
organized toiiers uea Of the Mississipp'
river.
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THE ENQUIRER appears this
week in a new and lovely dress.
Plain, clear, neat, its type will de-
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CARPENTERS.

CARPENTERS.
Carpenters Union, No. 55. OF the Brother.
mood of America. meets every Saturday
evening at Euclid Hall. All good Carpenters
are invited to join. -.
W. A. CANNON, President
]. +. HALL, F. Secretary.
S. A. PEARCE, Rec. and Cor Sec.
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Plasterers' international Union, No. 80,
Meets every Monday evening
at 1880 In Room IS, Tabor Block,
Corner 10th and IsAxAAaOx.0 0t~.
A. SUARTHOUT, President.
A. j. HARDEN, Secretary. 1885 pd
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az am the mote In the sunbeam;
IA lam the burning sun; f.lf:
N Rest here, whisper the atone;
III call to the orb roll on!' iNi :,
The Philadelphia palace has for
gotten all of the poem except the
first line, but goes on repeating
that over and over again, fancying
it is-inculcating its divinity.
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Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-03-07
Baseball.

The match between the Los Angeles
and the Pomona mines yesterday after.
noon was not very spirited. In the first
place the Pomona nine was not full, only
Ave of its members being present, and
the other four were filed in from the
picked nine which has played heretofore
with the Los Angeles club. The earlier
part of the game was more interesting,
but after obtaining three runs the Los
Angeles club did not appear to try to
increase the score. 1t was evident from
the first that the Pomona club had no
chance to win. and there was no neces.
sity for hard work. The game was
played under the old rules, and but little
good batting was done. Only one of the
Pomonas succeeded in getting as far as
third base. The batteries of both teams
were very good, but the fielders did not
have much chance to disclose their mer.
its. The score at the close was as fol-
lows
INNINGS ~ 345 6 8 9-ToTAL
Los Angeles ....0 2 90 1 OF 00-3
Pomona .........0 0 90 90 90